Category Archives: Thoughts

Blogging About Blogging Awareness of the outside world. “Fourth, blogs are dead. OK, this is not actually one of the reasons I quit blogging. It is, however, basically true.” Fat Cyclist: The End, Jan 2022. If everyone is switching over to podcasts, does that mean we have circled back to radio? Also, regardless of theContinue reading “State of the Blog, Cross Platform Commenting, Briefly, With Guest Photos”

Fit To Ride Awareness of the outside world. Winter Olympics, Beijing 2022. Athletics should be about international cooperation outside of politics. Yes. There are things in life more important watching a handful of folks slide around on ice and snow. Also yes. I don’t know where that leaves us.~~~ I’ve done the pasture loop manyContinue reading “State of the Fitness, Keeping Track, Lap Counting With Sound”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Ars Technica: New York Times spends “low seven figures” to buy Wordle, Cunningham, 1/31/2022. Sometimes the good guys win.~~~ “”We can have a sane Rodney or a fat Rodney, but not clearly both. So far this winter, we’ve chosen a fat Rodney.” Husband, email to a third party. ContinuingContinue reading “Home Team Update, Rodney”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. Ancient Alabama, part 11. AL.com: Woolly mammoths, sabertooth cats and more roamed Alabama in the last Ice Age, Pillion 14 Dec 2021.~~~ I was easing into a second week of zero saddle time, so I scheduled a lesson at Stepping Stone Farm. Would I like to ride Dottie? WhyContinue reading “Back In The Saddle, Saddle Seat Style”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. “In the county itself, a local Episcopal church in Athens announced it would be conducting a discussion of the book Feb. 3. The event will include discussion about the complicity of many churches in the systematic murder of Jews during the Holocaust, as well as modern-day antisemitism.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency:Continue reading “Home Team Update, Milton, January 2022”

Riding Awareness of the outside world. A lot of Instagram advice says one should live! in! the! now! True but it all comes off sounding very grasshopper over ant. Planning for the future is part of today. Preparing for the future is part of today. You have to ride today to be ready for tomorrow’sContinue reading “Mindset Monday, Nevermind”

Images Awareness of the outside world. Is there a word for the joy of travel when some one else has done all the work? YouTube: Mississippi By Canoe, subtitled, 950,00 Stokes, A Journey Down the Mississippi River. Meincke.~~~ Vorfreude is the enjoyment of things to come, pre-joy. “Vorfreude combines the prefix vor (similar to theContinue reading “Words Worth Knowing, Vorfreude”